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Beyond despair : the Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children / Hélène Dumas ; translated by Catherine Porter ; foreword by Louisa Lombard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dumas, Hélène, author.
- Series:
- Thinking from elsewhere.
- Thinking from Elsewhere Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide survivors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- A bracing look at the Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the eyes of children.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series Editors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword (by Louisa Lombard)
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Genocide through the Eyes of Children
- Part I: Life Before-Ubuzima bwa mbere
- 1. The Worlds of Childhood: Family and School
- 2. Childhoods at War
- Part II: Then the Time Came, and We Entered into the Life of the Genocide-Ubwo igihe cyaje kugera twinjira mu buzima bwa jenoside
- 3. Separations
- 4. "Their God Is Dead
- 5. Theaters of Cruelty
- 6. Ecosystems of Survival
- Photographs
- 7. Rescues
- Part III: The Life of an Orphan Has No End-Ubupfubyi ntibushira
- 8. "We Went Back to Our Ruins
- 9. Escaping from the "Teeth of the Mockers": Surviving in Hostile Surroundings
- 10. "My Hobbled Life": Writing Moral Pain
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781531506100
- 1531506100
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